MonsterBag Coming to PS Vita on April 7th

Hello, World! Here at IguanaBee we have exciting news to share — MonsterBag is about to be in your hands! Now with the good folks at PlayStation, we can share with you our release date. It was difficult for us to wait any longer, but now we can share our game with you on April 7th. Yes, it’s that close!

We know that you’d prefer to see a trailer rather than continue reading about the game, but sadly we didn’t have the time to prepare something for you, so, sorry, this is all we have… Nah, we didn’t want to leave you empty handed at this moment, so we got some help from talented folks at PlayStation, who helped us put together this launch trailer. Enjoy!

Most of you will be asking “What’s MonsterBag about?” MonsterBag is a kind of puzzle, platformer (If you think of people as a platform!) action game. The game is about a little blue monster called V and V’s journey to get back to his friend Nia (a charming little girl), passing through places filled with people.

But what would you do if you saw a monster approaching you? Smash it to death, of course! You’ll have to help V sneak past people, all the while being aware of where they’re looking and what particular behaviors they have. Don’t worry, he has a card up his slee… well, he has no clothes, but he’s not a powerless monster. V has some telekinetic skills that surely will be useful in more than several occasions.

We’re looking forward to putting MonsterBag in your hands (well in your PS Vita, in your hands). Making an indie video game company from a Latin American country has been quite a challenge, but our passion has helped us cope with all the challenges that have arisen. We (Cristian González and Daniel Winkler) love what we do, and so do all the talented folks that joined us along the way, particularly David Rioseco, Glenn Lazo, and Moises Aguilera, as well as Ronny Antares, and his PowerUp Music team.

We hope you’ll love MonsterBag as much as we do! We’ve put all our heart into this story with some new and unusual ways to play so we hope that all our efforts will bring you more than one smile, some tears and a lot of “pull your hair out” moments. Finally, we want to deeply thank our friends at PlayStation for believing in us and in MonsterBag!

So prepare your PS Vita for April 7th when it launches on PS Store for $9.99. See what a team of crazy fellows from this thin, but beautiful country called Chile can offer!

Hi ferrers405, we’re glad you liked it so far and we hope you’ll love the game itself too.
About your question, the game do uses normal controls, but there’s also a lot of stuff you can only do with the front touchscreen. We hope that will be no problem.

Want more games for it, but prefer better quality games and not things I could get for less on my Ipod/Phone.

Also, could Sony answer why I purchased the GoW Ultimate edition, and this morning the DLC that was provided for originally has been stripped away?

Or why my comments have been censored/delayed since October?

Bringing reviews of your service to other members should not be allowed or condoned regardless if you do not like the review/suggestion.

I know this much right now.

Sony has been dramatically lowering my opinion of their services/product, and if Xbox is going to atleast allow backwards compatibility my next console will definitely be Xbox 1.
(At least they do not my false statements about backwards compatibility not being possible)

We’re very happy you liked how the game has become. It suffered a lot of improvements along the (long) development (that’s one of the benefits of being indie, to be able to make severe changes in the middle of the process, only to make it better) :D

The game looks adorable! It reminds me of a Cartoon Network cartoon. Can’t wait to get it in my hands and see how it plays. Games like these are why I love owning my Vita. Thanks for all the hard work.

We’re pleased you liked it so far. Has we said on the post, we’re looking forward to having MonsterBag in your hands :)
We hope you’ll like the gameplay, animations & story as much as you expect (or even more) :D
Thank you for your comment!

We’re very glad you liked the art style! Thank you very much for your comment! Here in Latin America we have a lot of passionate teams in the videogame industry, we hope this will contribute to show what we’re capable of :)

Thank you very much for your comment! We’re very happy you’ll get it that early! We hope you’ll love it (not only the art, but also the gameplay, animations, challenges & especially the story) :D
Saludos desde Chile ;)

The art and animation look great! I hope the music in the trailer is what’s in the game, as it sounds fantastic. Looks like a mash-up of Doki Doki Universe and Hohokum, both of which I absolutely adore.

will the music assets on Vita be 320kbps Ogg?
will it run in Vita’s native resolution?
what’s the target framerate? 30fps? 60fps?

We’re very happy you liked the art and animations (with these comments our art team is growing a very large and long lasting smile :D )
Also PowerUp Music team will be very glad you appreciate their work. The music in the trailer is not all from the game, but created for the trailer based on MonsterBag music ;)

And don’t worry, we put all our heart to have great frame by frame animations and hi-quality audio ;)

Hi! We’re glad to be here for help! And don’t have to blame the other studios, maybe they are too busy with the launch, a patch or even a new game, or maybe there are so many comments that they cannot manage to reply them all. But again, we’re happy to respond your questions and comments :D

We’re very glad you liked it, even if you don’t know why or how. It’s good to generate that feelings :D
Actually the trailer shows gameplay (most of what you see on the trailer was captured directly from the game on the Vita), but sorry we didn’t want to show the puzzles, because we don’t want to be Spoilers. I hope you understand that ;)
We hope you’ll love MonsterBag as much as you do with Hohokum :D

the update messed my custom theme up.please just fix the lunar rising redux theme for some reason the free themes work but it does not.its not fair for me to spend money and not be able to use what i paid for.

can someone please let me know if the lunar rising redux theme ps4 is going to be fixed.i just bought it like 2 days ago it was installed during the update ive tried everything to get it working.this is unacceptable

ill say this sony your lack of care and just straight ignoring me.i will never buy anything from the psn store in all honesty ive spent hundreds if not close to a thousand on psn between my ps3,ps home,and now ps4.the same attention im getting now will be the same you get from my wallet for now on.

And people complain where are the PS Vita games at really. The games that come out may not be your kind of game but Sony is supporting the portable.Because if they weren’t games wouldn’t be coming out at all duh.

Thanks again for your post remanutd5 and for the good intentions!
I have to tell that I don’t think this game qualifies for Nickelodeon, Disney Jr or Cartoon Network ads, because, despite being cartoonish, it has violence and blood.

A fantastic game, I immediately bought it when I saw it . the design optics alone appealed to me , and it exceeded my expectations . I played Level 1-10 at a time , and so often have to laugh out loud!!! absolutely my sense of humor. Please please please more of it. I would immediately buy additional levels as addon in PS Store oder a second game like this.